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patch 9.0.1886: Various Typos Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/ee17b6f70d382ec6c5d8d27b56c4e84106ac8c55 Author: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> Date: Sat Sep 9 11:23:50 2023 +0200 patch 9.0.1886: Various Typos Problem: Various Typos Solution: Fix Typos This is a collection of typo related commits. closes: #12753 closes: #13016 Co-authored-by: Adri Verhoef <a3@a3.xs4all.nl> Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com> Co-authored-by: Viktor Sz?pe <viktor@szepe.net> Co-authored-by: nuid64 <lvkuzvesov@proton.me> Co-authored-by: Meng Xiangzhuo <aumo@foxmail.com> Co-authored-by: Dominique Pell? <dominique.pelle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
author Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
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1 TRANSLATING VIM MESSAGES
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3 In this directory you will find xx.po files, where "xx" is a language code.
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4 Each file contains the translation of English Vim messages for one language.
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5 The files are in "po" format, used by the gettext package. Please refer to
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6 the gettext documentation for more information.
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8 The GNU gettext library, starting with version 0.10.37, supports converting
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9 messages from one encoding to another. This requires that it was compiled
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10 with HAVE_ICONV. The result is that the messages may be in any encoding
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11 supported by iconv and will be automatically converted to the currently used
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12 encoding.
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15 some encodings. This follows the C99 standard for strings. It means that
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16 when a multi-byte character includes the 0x5c byte, this is not recognized as
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17 a backslash. Since this format is incompatible with Solaris, Vim uses the old
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18 format. This is done by setting the OLD_PO_FILE_OUTPUT and OLD_PO_FILE_INPUT
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19 environment variables. When you use the Makefile in this directory that will
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20 be done for you. This does NOT work with gettext 0.10.36. Don't use it, get
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21 0.10.37.
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23 Have a look at these helper scripts, they may be useful for you:
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24 https://github.com/adaext/vim-menutrans-helper
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27 ON MS-WINDOWS
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29 The distributed files are generated on Unix, but this should also be possible
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30 on MS-Windows. Download the gettext packages, for example from:
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32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gettext
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34 You might have to do the commands manually. Example:
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36 cd c:\vim\vim81
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37 mkdir runtime\lang\ja\LC_MESSAGES
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38 msgfmt -o runtime\lang\ja\LC_MESSAGES\vim.mo src\po\ja.po
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41 WHEN THERE IS A MISTAKE
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43 If you find there is a mistake in one of the translations, please report this
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44 to the maintainer of the translation. His/her e-mail address is in the
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45 comments at the start of the file. You can also see this with the ":messages"
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46 command in Vim when the translation is being used.
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49 CREATING A NEW PO FILE
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52 language.
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54 - Edit Makefile to add xx to LANGUAGES and xx.mo to MOFILES.
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55 - If you haven't done so already, run ./configure in the top vim directory
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56 (i.e. go up two directories) and then come back here afterwards.
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57 - Execute these commands:
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58 % make vim.pot
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59 % msginit -l xx
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60 % rm vim.pot
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61 The first command will generate a vim.pot file which is used by msginit to
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62 generate a correct xx.po file. After that vim.pot is not needed.
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63 - The remaining work is like updating, see the next section.
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66 UPDATING A PO FILE
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68 If you are the maintainer of a .po file, this is how you update the file. We
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69 will use "xx.po" as an example here, replace "xx" with the name of your
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70 language.
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71
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72 (1) Add new and changed messages from the Vim sources:
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73
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76 This will extract all the strings from Vim and merge them in with the
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77 existing translations. Requires the GNU gettext utilities.
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78 Your original xx.po file will be copied to xx.po.orig
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79
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80 -- After you do this, you MUST do the next three steps! --
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85 the context of the message.
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86 Search the po file for items that require translation:
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88 /fuzzy\|^msgstr ""\(\n"\)\@!
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90 Remove the "#, fuzzy" line after adding the translation.
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92 There is one special message:
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93 msgid "Messages maintainer: The Vim Project"
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95 msgstr "Berichten übersetzt bei: John Doe <john@doe.org>"
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97 (3) Remove unused messages (optional)
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98 Remove messages that have been marked as obsolete.
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99 Such messages start with "#~".
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101 The cleanup script will also do that (see next step).
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104 This is very important to make sure the translation works on all systems.
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105 Comment-out all non-translated strings. There are two types:
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106 - items marked with "#, fuzzy"
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108 You can do this with the cleanup.vim script:
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110 :source cleanup.vim
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112 Background: on Solaris an empty msgstr results in an empty message; GNU
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113 gettext ignores empty strings and items marked with "#, fuzzy".
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115 This also removes the line numbers from the file, so that patches are not
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116 messed up by changes in line numbers and show the actual changes in the
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117 text.
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119 (5) Check:
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121 While editing the .po file:
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122 :source check.vim
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124 From the command line:
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128 Look out for syntax errors and fix them.
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130 (6) Local tryout:
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131 Vim normally picks up the .mo files from:
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132 $VIMRUNTIME/lang/{lang}/LC_MESSAGES/vim.mo
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133 To try out the messages with Vim use:
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135 And run Vim with $VIMRUNTIME set to ../runtime
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138 USING GETTEXT WITHOUT ICONV
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140 When using gettext which doesn't support iconv, the encoding of the .mo file
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141 must match your active encoding. For that you must convert and change
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142 encoding of *.po file in advance of generating the *.mo file. For example, to
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143 convert ja.po to EUC-JP (supposed as your system encoding):
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145 (1) Convert the file encoding:
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147 mv ja.po ja.po.orig
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148 iconv -f utf-8 -t euc-jp ja.po.orig > ja.po
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152 Open ja.po find this line:
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153 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
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154 You should change "charset" like this:
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155 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-jp\n"
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157 There are examples in the Makefile for the conversions already supported.